Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...draw up a prisoner-of-war agreement. After that he went to the Versailles Conference, officially as a secretary but unofficially as hearing aide to U.S. Delegate Joseph Clark Grew, who was growing increasingly deaf. In 1921 Herter returned to the U.S. as secretary to Commerce Secretary Herbert Clark Hoover in the Harding Administration...
...State, Herter has made few headlines in a job where headlines are likely to come only after major gaffes (as Herter's Under Secretary predecessor, Herbert Hoover Jr., found out more than once). Herter has won Secretary Dulles' increasing confidence, in the last year has been handed day-to-day direction of U.S. policy at the Geneva disarmament and nuclear-test conferences, in the critical Middle East and in Indonesia. He knows his job and he likes it, and for however long Foster Dulles may be gone. Chris Herter, subject always to the will of the President...
...tradition goes back to Chester A. Arthur, who called on Operatic Soprano Adelina Patti. Teddy Roosevelt gave weekly musicales for as many as 500 guests, invited such performers as Paderewski and Actress Ethel Barrymore. Neither Herbert Hoover nor Calvin Coolidge went in for such lighthearted entertainment, although Coolidge once had John Barrymore to dinner before going to the National to see the Great Profile play Hamlet. Both F.D.R. (he liked Lawrence Tibbett, Marian Anderson, Kate Smith and Mickey Mouse, among others) and Truman were major White House impresarios...
...outdo his previous exploits as a canny hooker of the skittery bonefish (the Miami Chamber of Commerce once cited him for landing an unusually healthy 13-pounder), ex-President Herbert Hoover, 84, relaxed aboard a yacht after his arrival in Florida with gee-whiz approval of his first jet ride: "It's a true revolution in air travel. It's going to make a great change in the American scene...
...across the Kariba gorge to get the power needed for heavy industry and the copper mines. The dam would turn the Gwembe Valley into the world's largest man-made lake, storing 130 million acre-ft. of water-more than the combined capacity of the Shasta, Hoover and Grand Coulee dams in the American West. Soon the Kariba gorge, which had been inhabited only by crocodiles, hippos and an occasional Batonga hunter, echoed to the roar of earth-moving equipment...